Exhibitions, Seminar

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - Lene Hansen (Copenhagen)

15:30 24 May 2017
Lene Hansen (Copenhagen) TBC Details to follow :

Deanna Petherbridge

2 December 2016 - 4 June 2017
A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career. Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.…

Family Ties – The Adamah Papers exhibition

7 April - 25 May 2017
A new exhibition from the Black Cultural Archives exploring a collection of papers belonging to the Adamah Family - a Ghanaian family of Kings - which reflect on the family's daily…

John Akomfrah

24 March - 23 July 2017
John Akomfrah's acclaimed video installation Vertigo Sea. Vertigo Sea, a three-screen film, first seen at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of Okwui Enwezor's All the World's Futures…

Lucienne Day

14 April - 16 July 2017
We are delighted to be celebrating the centenary year of one of Britain’s most influential 20th century designers. Best-known for her textiles, Lucienne Day (1917 – 2010) is recognised…

NEW SCULPTURE

22 October 2016 - 12 June 2017
This exhibition presents a dynamic selection of contemporary sculpture recently acquired by the Whitworth. Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition offers an eclectic journey through…

Sarah Wright (Royal Holloway)

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017, Semester 2

Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Curious Connections: On the relational and personal life significance of donating egg and sperm’ by Dr Petra Nordqvist

14:00 - 15:00 24 May 2017
You are warmly invited to the May Sociology seminar, given by Dr Petra Nordqvist, Sociology. The seminar will take place on the 24th May, 2-3pm, in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom. The…

Sooni Taraporevala: Home in the City, Bombay 1976-Mumbai 2016

4 March 2017 - 1 January 2018
The first UK solo exhibition of photographer Sooni Taraporevala. Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting…

The Tabley House Collection

13:00 1 April - 13:00 29 October 2017
As a university of Manchester country house collection, The Tabley House Collection showcases a permanent exhibition of early British modern masters alongside interchanging displays…

Israel Studies Seminar - Stacey Gutkowski (King's College London), 'Jewish Atheists in Foxholes? Phenomenologies of Violence and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'.

15:00 - 16:30 25 May 2017
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar programme has an Israel Studies theme. Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book. Unpacking and problematizing…

Dalton Seminar Series: Nuclear law - A helicopter view of international convention and policy

12:15 - 13:15 31 May 2017
An overview of the fascinating body of international convention and policy governing our civil nuclear power plants, developed against a backdrop of safety, security and safeguarding…

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Matthew Watson - University of Warwick

15:30 - 17:00 31 May 2017
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick ‘The Market’ – One Political Language, Many Economic Models: Unravelling the Multiplicity of the Market Concept within Economic Theory Details to follow

Professor Xiangzheng Deng - graduate student seminar

31 May 2017
Professor Xiangzheng Deng, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is visiting Manchester Urban Institute with funding from the University's Simon Visiting Professorship scheme. As well…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:00 - 13:00 5 June 2017
Do you feel cyber safe? A number of recent news stories have highlighted cases of criminals using email hacking and ransomware to access accounts belonging to Hilary Clinton and David…

Innovation, structural change and employment: A long term view and some policy implications

13:00 - 14:00 5 June 2017
In this paper I will briefly review some literature on the impact of technology on employment, focusing in particular on the capacity of technology to substitute human labour. I will…

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - IDEASLAB

15:30 - 17:00 7 June 2017
* IdeasLab is a PhD-led seminar exploring a timely theme over the course of a term. The organisers will choose a theme that should be of wide interest across the cluster. The theme…

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Greig Charnock - University of Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 7 June 2017
Greig Charnock, Manchester University Digital Capitalism and the Rebel City Details to follow

Intersectional Discourses: Race and Gender

16:00 - 18:00 7 June 2017
This is to invite you to the fourth seminar of the Critical Discourses in the Academy seminar series. We will be looking at Intersectionality and the need to theorize Race, Gender,…

Research and Teaching Matters - Higher education research showcase

12:00 - 13:00 7 June 2017
Presented by Dave Hall and colleagues. We are kicking off with a Research Matters Higher Education Showcase on the 7th of June at 12 in Ellen Wilkinson AG3/4 to highlight the MIE research…

The role of community assets in improving health + well-being In later life

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
Policymakers across the world are becoming increasingly interested in improving health and well-being by creating a more inclusive community-based society. In 2010, the UK government…

The role of community assets in improving health + well-being in later life

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
From MICRA, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, Manchester Centre for Primary Care and Inspiring Communities Together Seminar 2-4 pm, free networking lunch from 1 pm G306B, Jean…

Sustainability innovations and tensions among value chain partners: insights from the tannery industry

13:00 - 14:00 12 June 2017
The more firms are challenged to consider their environmental impacts, the more they are asked to introduce new products and processes that reduce or avoid harm on the environment.…

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